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Photobucket no longer allowing free 3rd party hosting.

I just realized this when I looked at my latest post. Apparently back in July they made the change so no embedded photos hosted on Photobucket will show up in the posts unless you have a $400/year upgrade with them.....

imgur.com is probably the largest image host on the internet at the moment. Using imgur is quite simple.

Once the site is loaded, click "New Post" at the top, then Browse. Select your image, then click Open. It will upload your image. Once your image shows up, hover your mouse over it so that a menu pops up, then put your mouse on the little down arrow, as shown here:
Click on "Get share links":

Click copy next to the box beneath "BBCode (Forums)". When you paste it, it should leave you with something like this:
[ img ]http://i.imgur.com/KSkS9CF.jpg[ /img ]
I added spaces in the brackets there next to "img" and "/img" in order to prevent the forum software from just showing the image again, so you would remove those spaces.

If an image is very large and you would like it to be shown not so large, imgur allows using an identifier at the end of the file name. In the example above, right before the ".jpg" you would add one of the following letters:s for a small image:

I switched to Imgur after getting Photobucked. After getting the hang of it, Imgur seems to work well; faster and easier than Photobucket, too. Hopefully Imgur won't pull the same stunt as Photobucket ...

so no embedded photos hosted on Photobucket will show up in the posts unless you have a $400/year upgrade with them.....

"The free account does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting. If you are interested in image linking and/or 3rd party image hosting, you will need to subscribe to one of our Plus Accounts described below. Free account Members can upgrade to a Plus account at any time.
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"Plus 100 Plan: 102 GB of Storage for $99.99 / Year. The Plus 100 Plan allows for unlimited image linking but does not allow 3rd party image hosting. "
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My free account still enables "image linking," but again, there would be few hits on photos posted.

I've been with photobucket for years...so maybe a computer glitch of theirs.

ISPs have slowly been getting away from allowing user space for web pages/etc. From a Mom/Pop ISP viewpoint, if a photo hits big, its a drag on their system. Hence, by not allowing web-pages, they can predict how their loads will be.

Photobucket played dirty pool, and then wants too much $$$ for non-commercial interests. To my awareness, Photobucket has not blanked out my photos yet, on a quiet forum. I suppose if there were a succession of photos, then they (computer) might clamp down.